When I saw the preview for last night’s episode, I was
surprised. Not that they were going
there at some point but that they went there so soon. I didn’t expect Skye’s double dealings to
become an issue until at least the half way point of the season. Then again, since this one really continued
the pilot, that might be why.
The episode opens in China as a street magician is doing
his act. When his audience starts to
discount his work, he pulls out his big trick – he can start and hold fire in
his hand. It so impresses a woman in the
audience that she goes home with him.
After another demonstration, she drugs him and two guys in fireproof
suits show up to kidnap him.
When he wakes up, he learns he is in a research facility,
and it isn’t SHIELD like he first thinks.
(He’s been living under their surveillance for years.) Instead, they want to help him achieve his
true potential. He could become a hero,
say Scorch. They inject him with
something, and it makes his fireballs more powerful.
But this group is really Caterpillar – the group from the
pilot episode. They are experimenting on
him hoping they can stabilized their subjects so they don’t explode. The fire resistance on his skin is just what
they are looking for. Once that is
confirmed, they knock it out and take that part of his DNA from him.
Meanwhile, our band of SHIELD agents have been trying to
track down just how Caterpillar found him.
Skye is able to trace it to a hacker in Austin .
However, he is from her old group, Red Tide. In fact, he’s her old lover. When he manages to escape from their
surveillance and get home, she is waiting for him. She tries to confront him, but they wind up
sleeping together.
As Skye is frantically trying to get dressed and get out of
there again, SHIELD shows up. She’s
busted. And as the crew is now flying to
China ,
we learn that he had sold the information for money, which just infuriates
Skye. Furthermore, she is upset because
no one will trust her now, and she trusts this group she is working with.
They land in China
and storm the facility. They can’t
reason with Scorch and he winds up exploding like the guy in the pilot did, but
not before killing the doctor from the pilot.
With the crisis averted, Coulson now has to deal with Skye and
her former friend. He offers the hacker
a choice – wear a bracelet that will track him and keep electronics from
working for him or be put in a cell. He
takes the bracelet and then they dump him off in China to figure out how to get
home.
Then he calls Skye to his office. He wants to know what else she’s hiding. She pulls out a data chip we saw earlier and
learn it contains everything she knows about her parents. And most of that has been redacted by
SHIELD. Coulson takes it and agrees to
find out what he can. Then he gives Skye
a bracelet of her own. She’s still on
the team, but no one will trust her now.
As a final scene, the woman who captured Scorch shows up in
a prison. She talks to someone who is
obviously also involved in these genetic experiments they are doing. Caterpillar is still alive and is working to
create a super human army. What their
end game is, we don’t know yet, but I have a feeling we’ve met our big bad of
the season.
Now don’t get me wrong, I like Skye, but isn’t it time that
we get to know the others on the team?
Another reason I expected this episode to come later was we still don’t
really know either scientist and the pilot could be better developed as well. This is supposed to be an ensemble piece,
right?
Still, it was a decent episode, and the revelation about
Skye’s background is certainly interesting.
Can’t wait to see how that plays out as time passes.
What were your thoughts on the episode? How might the Caterpillar plot play out as
the season progresses?
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